Computer professionals increasingly rely on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to solve information pain. Now O'Reilly's CD Bookshelf gives you convenient online access to your favorite books on your CD-ROM drive. The UNIX CD Bookshelf contains a powerhouse of UNIX Animal books from O'Reilly plus the complete text and software from UNIX Power Tools -- all readable with your Web browser on a convenient CD-ROM. A bonus hard-copy book, UNIX in a Nutshell, System V Edition, is also included. In addition to UNIX Power Tools, you'll find the complete text of the following books: Learning the UNIX Operating System, 4th Edition; Learning the vi Editor, 5th Edition; sed & awk, 2nd Edition; Learning the Korn Shell; and UNIX in a Nutshell, System V Edition. Never has it been easier to learn, or look up, what you need to know online. Formatted in HTML, The UNIX CD Bookshelf can be read by any Web browser. The books are fully searchable and cross-referenced. In addition to individual indexes for each book, a master index for the entire library is provided.

The UNIX CD Bookshelf Review,  October 03 1999
Submitted by Chilly Wang   [Respond | View]



For me, I would buy "The Unix CD Bookshelf" as soon as "Learning the Korn Shell" is replaced by "Using csh and tcsh". Also, Please let the update version of all the books inside the CD. Regards, Chilly Wang,


The UNIX CD Bookshelf Review,  April 27 1999
Submitted by Doug Bakewell   [Respond | View]



I wish to echo the exact message posted here by
Maqbool Hassan on March 5, 1999. I was also about
to buy the UNIX CD Bookshelf until I saw the old
editions. As Maqbool said the Korn shell book is
of little use and should be replaced by a csh/tcsh
book. If these changes were made I would buy this
CD.




The UNIX CD Bookshelf Review,  March 26 1999
Submitted by Ed Hingsbergen   [Respond | View]



I am a travelling consultant - taking a whole library of reference materials was not possible. I of course carried the hardcopy "Unix in a Nutshell". With the Unix CD Bookshelf, I have an execellent set of books at my fingertips without weighing down my suitcase.

The "Unix Power Tools", "sed & awk", and "Unix in a Nutshell" books are the ones I use most (every week), but the "Learning the vi Editor" and "Learning the Korn Shell" books are invaluable also. I'd like the capability to add additional titles to the set, but I think that this is a very good selection of books - (who uses the C shell, anyway?)

The search engine is excellent, very unintrusive. Now, I just need to find a way to justify expensing the "Networking CD Bookshelf"...


The UNIX CD Bookshelf Review,  March 05 1999
Submitted by Maqbool Hassan, maqbool@geocities.com   [Respond | View]



The bookshelf has an enorous potential to be improved and it is a question why better books were not packaged.

For example, Unix in a nutshell has a 2nd edition in the print and in cd is the old first.

Learning vi editor has 6th edition in print and in cd is the old one.

Learning Korn shell is no way of so use as of "Using csh and tcsh". Why Korn shell book in the bookshelf and why not cshell book?

As sed and awk is available on most system V, so it is ok, though it is now being replaced by perl.

Two books : Unix Power Tools, 2nd ed. and Learning the Unix Operating system, 4th edition are really good.

I was going to buy this bookshelf but if you are getting old editions in the cd, it is not worth spending.

I shall look forward to O'reilly to update the cd bookshelf for better value to its readers.

I shall buy it as soon as new editions are included and korn shell is replaced with csh book. Hope Oreilly would consider doing it.

Regards,
An Oreilly reader
Maqbool Hassan


The UNIX CD Bookshelf Review,  February 23 1999
Submitted by   [Respond | View]



I would just like to say that Figure 2.1 in
the learning the VI editor

This is the link(/vi/figs/vi_60201.gif)
from the page /vi/ch02_02.htm.

There is no file with /vi/figs/vi_60201.gif this
name in that directory. There are :
vi_60202
vi_60203
vi_60204

Hope this feedback can be of use

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